EP 2080169 A1 20090722 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING A REGION IN A MEDICAL IMAGE
Title (en)
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING A REGION IN A MEDICAL IMAGE
Title (de)
SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUM SEGMENTIEREN EINER REGION IN EINEM MEDIZINISCHEN BILD
Title (fr)
SYSTÈME ET PROCÉDÉ PERMETTANT DE SEGMENTER UNE RÉGION DANS UNE IMAGE MÉDICALE
Publication
Application
Priority
- CA 2007001772 W 20071010
- US 82889406 P 20061010
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2008052312A1] A method and computer program are provided for segmenting a prostate from a medical image such as an ultrasound image. Each slice in a study is analysed and uses a manual initialization to obtain an initial contour, in which a user selects initial points that are automatically rendered on the image. An automatic refinement stage then snaps the contour to the prostate boundary in the image based on a pre-stored anatomical atlas and edge information obtained from the image. A manual adjustment stage may then be performed and if selected, the contour is automatically propagated to the next image slice to avoid the manual initialization. An auxiliary image slice may be referred to, which indicates how the prostate shape changes from slice to slice, e.g. by providing a perpendicular profile.
IPC 8 full level
A61B 8/14 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
A61B 8/13 (2013.01 - EP US); A61B 8/469 (2013.01 - EP US); G01S 7/52036 (2013.01 - EP US); G01S 7/52074 (2013.01 - EP US); G01S 7/52084 (2013.01 - EP US); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 7/12 (2016.12 - EP US); G06T 7/149 (2016.12 - EP US); G06V 10/457 (2022.01 - EP US); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 2207/20092 (2013.01 - EP US); G06V 10/248 (2022.01 - EP US); G06V 2201/031 (2022.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2008052312 A1 20080508; CA 2666313 A1 20080508; EP 2080169 A1 20090722; EP 2080169 A4 20110727; JP 2010505558 A 20100225; JP 5362573 B2 20131211; US 2008267468 A1 20081030; US 8036436 B2 20111011
DOCDB simple family (application)
CA 2007001772 W 20071010; CA 2666313 A 20071010; EP 07866188 A 20071010; JP 2009531698 A 20071010; US 87019307 A 20071010